The Resurrection

The Resurrection

A prodigiously learned Hebraist, Vermes has written many books about
Jewish culture and history in the first century and about the
significant part played in that period by nascent Christianity, at
that time still a Jewish sect. He is an authority on another
charismatic movement, the Qumran sect that produced the Dead Sea
Scrolls, which he translated into English. Born in Hungary in 1924,
Vermes was baptised as a child, lost his parents in the Holocaust and,
after the war, became a Roman Catholic priest, though he later
reverted to Judaism. It would be difficult to invent a scholar better
qualified to write on Judaism and its relation to early Christianity.
Having dealt impartially, in little books uniform with this one, with
the Nativity and Passion, he now studies the biblical evidence for the
Resurrection. Some of it he cannot help regarding as curious.